I posted this on /lit/ by mistake, but I want to see how Sup Forums does.
I'd like to see the difference between readers and non-readers. Ideally non-native English speakers.
The test was a recommendation by professor Alexander Arguelles and I took it from here:
>100 questions
shan't be doing it
no problem my dude. I guess someone will be interested in doing it though. There's a lot of information in there too.
Also native language and how long have you been reading in English if you're a reader would be interesting too.
Sorry, I managed to answer the first 3 questions but this used up all my energy.
>You know at least 14,800 English word families!
mine is
>>at least 8,400
should be ashamed.
reader or non-reader and how much time have you been actively using English?
And there's nothing to be ashamed of. Watch the video starting at 5:55 and look how his students did.
What do you mean by reader or non-reader?
I work as a shopkeeper and a lot of my customers are westerners and I had the fortune of good English teachers when I was growing up.
I mean if you read books or not.
>You know at least 19,200 English word families!
OK, but what the fuck is a muff
>reader or non-reader
>actively using
I don't even get clearly what are you meaning by those phrases...
I read some English sentences almost everyday, as I browse this board. but I am reading 1-3 pages per day of English book lately, about months.
I have very limited occasion to speak in English, maybe once or twice in a couple of months.
Oh, I see. Yes, I have read a good number of books in English.
that's a lot Giovanni and I had no idea
>1-3
stop being lazy and step your game up japan
being able to actually talk with English speakers all the time is great though. I never got to talk the language that much
>>Argentina
>>call me
>>lazy
But I know maybe at least 3,000 Kanjis.
It's no fair compare us Asians to descendants of Romans.
I'm just saying you can do more than 3 pages a day. Also Chopper :3
Why is it that all east Asian languages are meme languages with 12,000 characters?
Actually, I read it out loud, in attempt to improve my pronunciation. I'll do it if you say so, but, yes it might seems really cool reading aloud a numbers of pages in awkward English.
I haven't counted my Kanji vocabulary, but 3,000
is basic level of our literacy so I presumed.
not too bad i guess
They were all cucked by the Chinese, same reason why everyone in the West uses the Latin alphabet
Fuck off burger.
I'm nobody really so you shouldn't just do it because I say so, but I think you can still read a couple of pages aloud and manage to read even more silently so as to gain much needed vocabulary.
18.400, not half bad.
I have to read a lot technical stuff in english everyday due to my job.
>nobody
>>some only Argentina I have ever talked
>>I shall keep his word
>>read 5 pages aloud per day.
>You know at least 11,200 English word families!
I skipped a lot tho because I didn't wanted to cheat.
>You know at least 16,400 English word families!
Just want to point out that this is very Ameri-centric. Some of the words I legitimately didn't know, because we don't use them here, not because I'm badly read.
I am
excessive pubic hair on a woman
>cor blimey m8, the missus needs to trim her muff
Whenever I faced an unfamiliar word, I wrote the word down to find out the meaning later. Many of those turned out to be words that I wouldn't have known even in Finnish
a friend from USA just took the test and got 17000, so I'd say you're not alone. She doesn't read much.
16,600
>tfw retarded
Yeah I'd like to think my vocabulary isn't that bad though. As I said, a lot of the words are very American and I guessed. What was your score out of curiousity?
16k and I wonder what's the background of . The other user that got 18k+ is also Italian but he said he has to read a lot of technical stuff for work. I read a lot but I'm super lazy when it comes to learning new definitions. It's all done by context in my particular case.
lol i got 14600. I used the "do not know" option a lot though, I never answered unless I was certain.
Pretty impressive dude. A lot of the trickier words were latin cognates though. Might go some way to explaining it?
well done, that's the idea. No cheating allowed.
I didn't notice that but if you did, then it probably has something to do. I'm a Spanish speaker though and I'm learning Italian, so you could argue that any word with a latin root that an Italian can guess, I can too.
Got 19200. Native speaker and have always been a reader. But there were a couple that stumped me. Seemed mostly to be older fashioned words.
The actual score is higher but I misclicked a couple of words because am on mobile.
Impressive. So here we have at least one useful comparison between two brits, one being a non-reader an the other a long time reader.
21,600 hm mediocre desu
I thought it was very uk-centric. Like a lot of the words I wouldn't have known if I didn't watch British TV or follow soccer and read the news about it which has all sorts of British turns of phrases a normal American wouldn't know about. Interesting.
>I thought it was very uk-centric. Like a lot of the words I wouldn't have known if I didn't watch British TV or follow soccer and read the news about it which has all sorts of British turns of phrases a normal American wouldn't know about. Interesting.
That's because we use big words here. Is a muff a tea cosy?
No, it's like those Russian fur hats but with the lid cut off except you put it on your hands to keep them warm in the winter. I thought it'd be vagina too until I saw the definitions offered kek
Your slang isn't known for big words. It's great though, just pure description. Like bubble and squeak or wiggly tin. Couldn't stop laughing the first time I heard that one. We call it corrugated iron but no one would use "corrugated" in a sentence not talking about it.
kek I really can't tell if this is a troll or not, well played sir
15600
I got 16,200
I selected words that i inmediately regreted choosing, so idk
17600, it was in English though.
>You know at least 13,200 English word families!
sad I guess, but I have never "directly" studied English, I just read English-speaking forums/news and watched youtube for a few years
28,800.
Any Briton getting less than 20k is either an immigrant or clinically retarded.
Intelligence is overrated anyway.
>You know at least 16,400 English word families!
I am rather upset by the score, honestly. Was expecting myself to get around 18000 because throughout my whole life I was always the best English speaker into every single given group of people. I got to the point of being called "the best of this year's sub-grade" in the university.
Oh well. There goes the only thing that kept my self esteem afloat.
ASIAN FRIENDS!!
t-t-thanks...
I live in Europe though
Mine is about 8500, frenz.
But it is inevitable though, in well-developed Asian countries like ours, English staffs are to be immediately translated by some other specialist, while other cunt's citizens have to attack raw-English materials. So then, we couldn't be in the need of learning English, right?